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If you find an answer, please let me know. I get the exact same error. After install finishes, computer reboots, reboot fails indicating something is corrupt. Run the repair tool, cant repair, look at the log and I get the exact same setup error.

Good luck.. I am on my 2nd week of troubleshooting. If I find a solution, I will post in here to let you know.

My research has only shown that Win7 seems to have problerms with 2TB harddrives, but I've found nothing definitive.

If you still can't get the install to work, then I'd suggest partitioning the harddrive into smaller partitions. For Win 7, loaded to the gills, 250 GB would more than suffice. I assume the reason you have such a large disk is that you want to be able to save videos, movies, music, pics of considerable size and quantity. You will also simplify many other backup and restore activities and problems by partitioning into smaller units. You have seen how long a simple write of zeros to your drive took when the computer wasn't doing anything else. You must think ahead to the day that the harddrive dies. You would like to have a backup of the drive before that happens. If drive A crashes, then you need a drive B ready to go in its place.

Give us an idea of what you plan to do with 1.5 Terabytes and we can probably make some suggestions as to how to utilize the space and handle backup in a reasonable manner.

Thank karlnooks, I was just thinking the same thing. I had a weird issue with a 2TB drive a while back and was reflecting on that when catching up on this thread. I broke it up into 3 partitions. 100meg (Windows 7), 250GB and 1.3TB for Data. C: Is 250GB and 1.3TB is D: all worked fine after that.

sorry to be so slow to respond. Just started a new job today so no time in work hours anymore to look at this. Only got time at home (but at least I'm getting paid now).

No solution to the problem yet.

Re the 1.5 TB - no specific plans - it was just a good price point for disk/$.

I will partition the disk as described above and see what happens, although advice on how best to set it up is welcome. this will be the primary games machine - when it gets a new graphics card. Plus MP3 and movies.

At the moment I am trying an install with all "unnecessary" options disabled on mother board. eg USB3, com, parallel, floppy etc even though nothing installed on them.

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